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1400
1400s
Europeans begin to set up colonies -
1400
1400s
Africans start to trade with newly arrived Europeans -
1500
1500s
African traders begin to sell slaves to Europeans for guns and other goods -
1500
1500s
Europeans begin building trading posts -
1600s
Southern and Eastern Africa become the first colonized part of Africa -
1800s
Slave trade is mostly outlawed -
1800s
Europe begins actively colonizing Africa -
1900s
Africans regains power -
1900
Africa is almost fully divided up among Europe countries -
1910
South Africa gains their independence -
1920s
Kikuyu people organize a political stand against Britain -
1930s
Ethiopia is invaded by Italy -
1940s
African independence movements gain momentum -
1948
South Africa adopts Apartheid -
1950s and 1960s
Most of Africa becomes independent. -
1956
Southerners in Sudan rebel against northern rule -
1957
Ghana gains independent -
1960
Nigeria becomes independent -
1960
Belgium grants the Belgium Congo independence -
1962
Nelson Mandela is jailed -
1963
Kenya gains independance -
1965
Joseph Mobutu takes power over the Belgium Congo and changes the name to Zaire -
1967
The Igbo attempt to leave Nigeria -
1989
F.W. de Klerk is elected South Africa's president -
1990
South Africa's president releases Nelson Mandela and ends Apartheid -
1994
F.W. de Klerk's term ends -
1994
Nelson Mandela is elected president -
1994
Hutu military and militia killed between 800,000 and 1,000,000 people in a few months -
2005
Civil wars in Sudan end. -
2010
Arab Sprin movements begin -
2011
South Sudan becomes independent. -
2011
Tunisia's dictator resigns and a more substantial government is put in place -
2013
Morsi is imprisoned and his political party is banned